some of the issue stems form the copyright laws of Angola, which are really interesting to read -- read them in english -- https://www.copyright-watch.org/files/Angola.pdf of course I dont expect people to know their copyright laws in detail or to have read them but they do know the principles of it and what they can do
some points of interest
- Non protected works Article 9 section c -- news of the day published by the press or broadcast - Chapter IV Uses lawful without Authorisation article 29 section b - reproduction by photographic process or process analogous to photographic process by <snip> documentation centres <snip> or teaching organisations ..... refers to minimum amount of copies necessary, but wither way Wikipedia would fall into either of these definitions as permitted to reproduce - article 30 - is the key here it enables translation into Portuguese after 3 years without any real restrictions - hence why the pt.wikis are having so much of an issue and by extension commons where they encourage uploading of media
Wikipedia zero implementation needs to also consider the implication of local laws especially copyright on the projects where the laws are this outdated and effectively enable copyright issues then WP Zero could provide a read only option for IP's or a no upload option, with a rights request process on commons
On 19 March 2016 at 00:45, Lucas Teles teleswiki@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, everyone.
It is being recently reported on Portuguese Wikipedia and Commons (at least) the increasing ammount of improper editing coming from IP addresses located in Angola. Some users believe that this may be related with Wikipedia Zero and a partnership between WMF and a cellphone company [1] that allows reading and editing at free cost.
One of the first reactions to that is a large range block that was just set on Commons in order to prevent these edits [2], as they are being done in a way that volunteers can't handle.
That seems to be some kind of "second wave" as the first that hit Commons [3] had been already reported months ago [4] and seemed to be controled or just paused for a while. On Portuguese Wikipedia, one thing that seemss to be clear is that edits are done in good faith. However, they end by being undone as they are incorrect for some reason, whether being pages of files about themselves or just test edits. One of the users identified actually confirm [5] that he is editing through Wikipedia Zero.
Concerning that more partnerships may occur in future, I think it is time for us to start talking about ways of dealing with that, other than blocking. Sadly, I don't have an answer to that problem, but I tend to believe that some way of mass reaching these potential users should be made out.
The current process is that editors will be the ones to notice that (as I am not aware of any kind of follow up by WMF on that) and they will try to solve their way, which may cause too many collateral damage.
I wonder if there is any kind of way to diminish the problem, by using any off-wiki strategy.
Kind regards.
Teles
[1] -
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/movicel-offers-free-access-to-wikipedia--11... [2] -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Steinsplitter&... [3] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles/Angola_Facebook_Case [4] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=12835... [5] -
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Usu%C3%A1rio_Discuss%C3%A3o:Darwi...
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